"The communities that I serve are plagued by violence and substance abuse. A few years into my career, my best friend,…"

"I am passionate about connecting children of color to yoga and mindfulness and in building healthy communities by dis…"

"I loved theater and writing short stories as a child. I was always a creative and energetic child."

"They ain’t been here long ’nough. They just barely human. Maybe not even. They suck up the world, don’t taste it."

"The intimacy of her mother’s hands and the warmth of the water lulled the Girl into a trance of sensuality she never …"

"Only frustrated people smoke too much and only lonely people are frustrated."

"I can never get a zipper to close."

"I didn't think I'd be true to a man again as long as I lived..."

"One hundred years hence, what a change will be made, In politics, morals, religion and trade, In statesmen who wrangl…"

"Our laws then will be uncompulsory rules, Our prisons converted to national schools."